Film Data For 1963

The Film Daily's Ten Best Pictures of 1963
1) Tom Jones- 174 votes
2) Hud- 138
3) Lilies of the Field- 126
4) David and Lisa (1962)- 122
5) Cleopatra- 97
6) Charade- 96
7) Irma La Douce- 93
8) The L-Shaped Room- 91
9) America, America- 83
10) The Great Escape- 70

The Honor Roll:
11) The Cardinal- 68
12) Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)- 61
13) Days of Wine and Roses (1962)- 58
14) This Sporting Life- 56
15) How the West Was Won (1962)- 55
16) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World- 45
17) The Victors- 42
18) Love With the Proper Stranger- 33
19) Lord of the Flies- 28
20) All the Way Home- 27
21) Spencer's Mountain- 24
22) The Birds- 22
23) The V.I.P.'s- 20
24) Dr. No- 19
25) The Four Days of Naples- 14
26) 55 Days at Peking- 10
      Under the Yum Yum Tree- 10

The Film Daily- "Filmdom's Famous Fives of 1963" (no vote counts given, but I believe The Film Daily listed in the order of preference)

Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Paul Newman in Hud
2) Jack Lemmon in Irma La Douce
3) Rex Harrison in Cleopatra
4) Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
5) Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field

Best Performances by Female Stars
1) Shirley MacLaine in Irma La Douce
2) Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room
3) Katharine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
4) Geraldine Page in Toys in the Attic
5) Jean Simmons in All the Way Home

Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) Melvyn Douglas in Hud
2) Lee J. Cobb in Come Blow Your Horn
3) Roddy McDowall in Cleopatra
4) Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia
5) Brandon De Wilde in Hud

Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Patricia Neal in Hud
2) Margaret Rutherford in The V.I.P.s
3) Thelma Ritter in A New Kind of Love
4) Maggie Smith in The V.I.P.s
5) Wendy Hiller in Toys in the Attic

Best Performances by Juveniles
1) Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
2) Philip Alford in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
3) Hayley Mills in Summer Magic
4) Luke Halpin in Flipper
5) Michael Kearney in All the Way Home

"Finds of the Year"
1) Keir Dullea in David and Lisa (1962)
2) Sean Connery in Dr. No (1962)
2) Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
4) Tippi Hedren inb The Birds
5) Suzanne Pleshette in The Birds

New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 30, 1963. Awards presented on January 18, 1964 at Sardi's restaurant in New York. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993)

Best Picture

Tom Jones (9 votes on ballot VI)

Runner-up: Hud (5 votes)

Best Director

Tony Richardson for Tom Jones

Runner-up: Martin Ritt for Hud

Best Actor

Albert Finney in Tom Jones (won on ballot VI)

Runner-ups: Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field and Paul Newman in Hud

Best Actress

Patricia Neal in Hud (11 votes on ballot I)

Runner-up: Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room (3 votes)

Best Screenplay

Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. for Hud

Best Foreign Film

8 1/2 (Italy)

National Board of Review (Winners announced on December 22, 1963. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001)

Best Picture

Tom Jones

Rest of the top ten (in order of preference)

Lilies of the Field

All the Way Home

Hud

This Sporting Life

Lord of the Flies

The L-Shaped Room

The Great Escape

How the West Was Won

The Cardinal

Best Director

Tony Richardson for Tom Jones

Best Actor

Rex Harrison in Cleopatra

Best Actress

Patricia Neal in Hud

Best Supporting Actor

Melvyn Douglas in Hud

Best Supporting Actress

Margaret Rutherford in The V.I.P.s

Best Foreign Film

8 1/2 (Italy)

Runners-up (in order of preference)

The Four Days of Naples (Italy)

Winter Light (Sweden)

The Leopard (Italy)

Any Number Can Win (France/Italy)

The Golden Globes (Nominations announced on January 27, 1964. Awards presented on March 11th, 1963. Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards) Winners listed in bold print.

Best Drama Picture

America, America

Captain Newman, M.D.

The Cardinal

The Caretakers

Cleopatra

The Great Escape

Hud

Lilies of the Field

Best Comedy or Musical Picture

Bye, Bye Birdie

Irma La Douce

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

A Ticklish Affair

Tom Jones

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Best Motion Picture Promoting International Understanding

America, America

Captain Newman, M.D.

The Cardinal

A Global Affair

Lilies of the Field

Best Director

Hall Bartlett for The Caretakers

George Englund for The Ugly American

Elia Kazan for America, America

Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Cleopatra

Otto Preminger for The Cardinal

Tony Richardson for Tom Jones

Martin Ritt for Hud

Robert Wise for The Haunting

Best Actor, Drama

Marlo Brando in The Ugly American

Stathis Giallelis in America, America

Rex Harrison in Cleopatra

Steve McQueen in Love with the Proper Stranger

Paul Newman in Hud

Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field

Gregory Peck in Captain Newman, M.D.

Tom Tyron in The Cardinal

Best Actress, Drama

Polly Bergman in The Caretakers

Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room

Geraldine Page in Toys in the Attic

Rachel Roberts in This Sporting Life

Romy Schneider in The Cardinal

Alida Valli in Paper Man

Marina Vlady in The Conjugal Bed

Natalie Wood in Love with the Proper Stranger

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical

Albert Finney in Tom Jones

James Garner in Wheeler Dealers

Cary Grant in Charade

Jack Lemmon in Irma La Douce and Under the Yum Yum Tree

Frank Sinatra in Come Blow Your Horn

Alberto Sordi in To Bed or Not to Bed

Terry Thomas in Mouse on the Moon

Jonathan Winters in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical

Doris Day in Move Over, Darling

Audrey Hepburn in Charade

Ann-Margret in Bye, Bye Birdie

Shirley MacLaine in Irma La Douce

Hayley Mills in Summer Magic

Molly Picon in Come Blow Your Horn

Jill St. John in Come Blow Your Horn

Joanne Woodward in A New Kind of Love

Best Supporting Actor

Lee J. Cobb in Come Blow Your Horn

Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D.

Melvyn Douglas in Hud

Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones

John Huston in The Cardinal

Paul Mann in America, America

Roddy McDowall in Cleopatra

Gregory Rozakis in America, America

Best Supporting Actress

Diane Baker in The Prize

Joan Greenwood in Tom Jones

Wendy Hiller in Toys in the Attic

Linda Marsh in America, America

Patricia Neal in Hud

Lilo Pulver in A Global Affair

Margaret Rutherford in The V.I.P.s

Lilia Skala in Lilies of the Field

Most Promising Newcomer- Male

Albert Finney in Tom Jones

Stathis Giallelis in America, America

Robert Walker in The Ceremony

Alain Delon in The Leopard

Peter Fonda in The Victors

Larry Tucker in Shock Corridor

Most Promising Newcomer- Female

Ursula Andress in Dr. No

Tippi Hedren in The Birds

Elke Sommer in The Prize

Joey Heatherton in Twilight of Honor

Leslie Parrish in For Love or Money

Maggie Smith in  The V.I.P.s

Best Foreign-Language Film

Any Number Can Win (France)

World Film Favorites

Sophia Loren

Paul Newman

Samuel Goldwyn International Award

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Joseph E. Levine

The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 24, 1964. Awards presented on April 13, 1963. The ceremony was telecast by ABC. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar)

Best Picture

America, America

Cleopatra

How the West Was Won

Lilies of the Field

Tom Jones

Best Director

Federico Fellini for Federico Fellini's 8 1/2

Elia Kazan for America, America

Otto Preminger for The Cardinal

Tony Richardson for Tom Jones

Martin Ritt for Hud

Best Actor

Albert Finney in Tom Jones

Richard Harris in This Sporting Life

Rex Harrison in Cleopatra

Paul Newman in Hud

Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field

Best Actress

Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room

Shirley MacLaine in Irma La Douce

Patricia Neal in Hud

Rachel Roberts in This Sporting Life

Natalie Wood in Love with the Proper Stranger

Best Supporting Actor

Nick Adams in Twilight of Honor

Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D.

Melvyn Douglas in Hud

Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones

John Huston in The Cardinal

Best Supporting Actress

Diane Cilento in Tom Jones

Dame Edith Evans in Tom Jomes

Joyce Redman in Tom Jones

Margaret Rutherford in The V.I.P.s

Lilia Skala in Lilies of the Field

Best Adapted Screenplay 

Captain Newman, M.D., Richard L. Breen, Henry Ephron, Phobe Ephron

Hud, Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr. 

Lilies of the Field, James Poe

Sundays and Cybele, Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal 

Tom Jones, John Osborne 

Best Original Screenplay

America, America, Eliz Kazan

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi 

The Four Days of Naples, Carlo Bernari, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini

How the West Was Won, James R. Webb

Love with the Proper Stranger, Arnold Schulman

Best Cinematography (Black & White)

The Balcony, Allen-Hodgdon, Reade-Sterling-Continental Dist. George Folsey

The Caretakers, Barlett, UA. Lucien Ballard

Hud, Salem-Dover, Paramount. James Wong Howe

Lilies of the Field, Rainbow, UA. Ernest Haller

Love with the Proper Stranger, Boardwalk-Roma, Paramount. Milton Krasner

Best Cinematography (Color)

The Cardinal, Preminger, Columbia. Leon Shamroy 

Cleopatra, Wanger, 20th Century-Fox. Leon Shamroy

How the West Was Won, MGM and Cinerama. William H. Daniels, Milton Krasner, Charles Lang, Jr. and Joseph LaShelle 

Irma La Douce, Mirisch-Phalanx, UA. Joseph LaShelle  

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Kramer, UA. Ernest Laszlo  

Best Song

"Call Me Irresponsible" from Papa's Delicate Condition. Music by James Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

"Charade" from Charade. Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Music by Ernest Gold. Lyrics by Mack David

"More" from Mondo Cane. Music by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero. Lyrics by Norman Newell

"So Little Time" from 55 Days at Peking. Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

Best Music Score-Substantially Original

Cleopatra, Wanger, 20th Century-Fox. Alex North

55 Days at Peking, Bronston, Allied Artists. Dimitri Tiomkin

How the West Was Won, MGM and Cinerama. Alfred Newman and Ken Darby

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Kramer, UA. Ernest Gold

Tom Jones, Woodfall, UA-Lopert (British). John Addison

Best Scoring of Music-Adaptation or Treatment

Bye, Bye Birdie, Kohlmar-Sidney, Columbia. John Green

Irma La Douce, Mirisch-Phalanx, UA. Andre Previn

A New Kind of Love, Llenroc, Paramount. Leith Stevens

Sundays and Cybele, Columbia (French). Maurice Jarre

The Sword and the Stone, Disney, Buenta Vista. George Bruns

Best Sound

Bye, Bye Birdie. Kohlmar-Sidney, Columbia. Columbia Studio Sound Dept. Charles Rice, sound director. 

Captain Newman, M.D., Brentwood-Reynard, Universal. Universal City Studio Sound Dept.; Waldon O. Watson, sound director.

Cleopatra, Wanger, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept.; James P. Corcoran, sound director; and Todd-AO Sound Dept., Fred Hynes, sound director.

How the West Was Won, MGM and Cinerama. MGM Studio Sound Dept.; Franklin E. Milton, sound director.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Kramer, UA. Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept.; Gordon E. Sawyer, sound director. 

Film Editing

The Cardinal, Preminger, Columbia. Louis R. Loeffler

Cleopatra, Wanger, 20th Century-Fox. Dorothy Spencer

The Great Escape, Mirisch-Alpha, UA. Ferris Webster

How the West Was Won, MGM and Cinerama. Harold F. Kress

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Kramer, UA. Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones and Gene Fowler, Jr.

Best Foreign Language Film

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Italy)

Knife in the Water (Poland)

Los Tarantos (Spain)

The Red Lanterns (Greece)

Twin Sisters of Kyoto (Japan)

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Black-and-White)

America, America, Gene Callahan 

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, Piero Gherardi 

Hud, Hal Pereira and Tambi Larsen; Sam Comer and Robert Benton  

Love with the Proper Stranger, Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Sam Comer and Grace Gregory

Twilight of Honor, Perlberg-Seaton, MGM. George W. Davis and Paul Groesse; Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt

Best Art Direction-Set Direction (Color)

The Cardinal, Preminger, Columbia. Lyle Wheeler; Gene Callahan

Cleopatra, Wanger, 20th Century-Fox. John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb, Maurice Pelling and Boris Juraga; Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox and Ray Moyer

Come Blow Your Horn, Essex-Tandem, Paramount. Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson; Sam Comer and James Payne

Tom Jones, Woodfall, UA-Lopert (British). Ralph Brinton, Ted Marshall and Jocelyn Herbert; Josie MacAvin 

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, Embassy Pictures (Italian). Piero Gherardi

Love With the Proper Stranger, Boardwalk-Rona, Paramount. Edith Head

The Stripper, Wald, 20th Century-Fox. Travilla

Toys in the Attic, Mirisch-Claude, UA. Bill Thomas

Wives and Lovers, Wallis, Paramount. Edith Head

Best Costume Design (Color)

The Cardinal, Preminger, Columbia. Donald Brooks

Cleopatra, Wanger, 20th Century-Fox. Irene Shariff, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Renie

How the West Was Won, MGM and Cinerama. Walter Plunkett

The Leopard, Titanus, 20th Century-Fox. Piero Tosi

A New Kind of Love, Llenroc, Paramount. Edith Head

Special Visual Effects

The Birds, Hitchcock, Universal. Ub Iwerks

Cleopatra, Wanger, 20th Century-Fox. Emil Kosa, Jr.

Best Sound Effects

A Gathering of Eagles, Universal. Robert L. Bratton

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Kramer, UA. Walter G. Elliott

Best Short Subject Cartoon

Automania 2000, Pathe Contemporary Films. John Halas, producer

The Critic, Pintoff-Crossbow Prods., Columbia. Ernest Pintoff, producer

The Game (Ingra), Rembrandt Films-Film Representations. Dusan Vukotic, producer

My Financial Career, National Film Board of Canada. Walter Reade-Sterling-Continental Distributing. Colin Low and Tom Daly, producers 

Pianissimo, Cinema 16. Carmen D'Avino, producer

Best Live Action Short Subject

The Concert, King Corp., George K. Arthur-Go Pictures. Ezra Baker, producer

Home-Made Car, Schoenfeld Films. James Hill, producer

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Janus Films. Paul de Roubaix and Marcel Ichac, producers

Six-Sided Triangle, Lion International. Christopher Miles, producer

That's Me, Pathe Contemporary Films. Walker Stuart, producer

Best Documentary Short Subject

Chagall, Auerbach-Flag Films. Simon Schiffrin, producer

The Five Cities of June, U.S. Information Agency. George Stevens, Jr., producer

The Spirit of America, Spotlite News. Algernon G. Walker, producer

Thirty Million Letters, British Transport Films. Edgar Anstey, producer

To Live Again, Wildings Inc., Mel London, producer

Best Documentary Feature

Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain). Films Du Centaure-Filmartic (French). Paul de Roubaix, producer

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World, WGBH Educational Foundation. Robert Hughes, producer

The Yanks Are Coming, David L. Wolper Prods. Marshall Flaum, producer

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Sam Spiegel

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Not given this year

Honorary Awards

None given this year

Scientific or Technical Awards

Class I (Statuette)

None

Class II (Plaque)

None

Class III (Citation)

Douglas G. Shearer and A. Arnold Gillespie of MGM Studio for the engineering of an improved Background Process Projection System

The British Academy Awards

Best Film From Any Source and Best British Film
Billy Liar (Great Britain)
David and Lisa (U.S.)
Days of Wine and Roses (U.S.)
Divorce-Italian Style (Italy)
8 1/2 (Italy)
Four Days of Naples (Italy)
Hud (U.S.)
Knife in the Water (Poland)
The Servant (G.B.)
This Sporting Life (G.B.)
To Kill a Mockingbird (U.S.)
Tom Jones (G.B.- won both awards)

Best British Actor
Dirk Bogarde in The Servant
Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar
Albert Finney in Tom Jones
Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones
Richard Harris in This Sporting Life

Best British Actress
Julie Christie in Billy Liar
Edith Evans in Tom Jones
Sarah Miles in The Servant
Rachel Roberts in This Sporting Life
Barbara Windsor in Sparrows Can't Sing

Best Foreign Actor
Howard da Silva in David and Lisa
Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses
Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce-Italian Style
Paul Newman in Hud
Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Foreign Actress
Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Patricia Neal in Hud
Lee Remick in the Days of Wine and Roses
Daniela Rocca in Divorce-Italian Style

Most Promising Newcomer
Wendy Craig in The Servant
Keir Dullea in David and Lisa
James Fox in The Servant
Janet Margolin in David and Lisa

Best British Screenplay
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall for Billy Liar
Harold Pinter for The Servant
David Storey for This Sporting Life
John Osborne for Tom Jones

Best British Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Denys Coop for Billy Liar
Max Greene for Heavens Above!
Douglas Slocombe for The Servant
Gerald Gibbs for Station Six Sahara
Christopher Challis for The Victors

Best British Cinematography (Color)
Ted Moore for From Russia, With Love
Arthur Ibbetson for Nine Hours to Rama
Robert Krasker for The Running Man
Erwin Hillier for Sammy Going South
Jack Asher for The Scarlet Blade
Geoffrey Unsworth for Tamahine
Jack Hildyard for The V.I.P.s

Best Short Film
Happy Anniversary (France)
Sailing (Holland)
Snow (G.B.)
The War Game (G.B.)

Best Animated Film (tie)
Automania 2000 (G.B.)
The Critic (U.S.)

United Nations Award
Inheritance (G.B.)
War Hunt (U.S.)

Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Picture:

The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

Best Director:

(Not awarded)

Best Actor:

Richard Harris, This Sporting Life

Best Actress:

Marina Vlady, The Conjugal Bed (a.k.a. Queen Bee)

Special Jury Prizes:

Harakiri, Setsuo V. Kobatashi (Japan)

One Day a Cat, V. Jasny (Czechoslovakia)

International Critics Prize:

This Sporting Life, Lindsay Anderson

Le Joli Mai, Chris Marker

Gary Cooper Award for Human Values:

To Kill a Mockingbird

Catholic Film Office Award:

The Fiances, Ermanno Olmi

Berlin Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Film

Oath of Obedience (Germany) and The Devil (Italy)

Best Director

Nikos Koundouros, Little Aphrodite

Best Actor

Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field

Best Actress

Bibi Andersson, The Lovers

Best Documentary

The Great Atlantic (Germany)

Best Short Subject

Bouwspelement (Holland)

Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Film:

Le Mani sulla citta (Francesco Rosi, Italy)

Best Actor:

Albert Finney, Tom Jones

Best Actress:

Delphine Seyrig, Muriel  (France)

Special Jury Prizes:

Le Feu Follet (Louis Malle, France)

Introduction to Life (Igor Talankine, USSR)

Best First Films:

A Sunday in September (Jorn Donner, Sweden)

Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker, France)

Catholic Film Office Award:

Hud (Martin Ritt, USA)

International Film Critics Award:

The Hangman (Luis Berlanga, Spain)

Director's Guild of America Awards (Sources: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg and Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on February 22, 1964, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Winner listed in bold print)

Best Director

Federico Fellini for 8 1/2

Elia Kazan for America, America

Ralph Nelson for Lilies of the Field

Tony Richardson for Tom Jones

Martin Ritt for Hud

Honorary Lifetime Member

Joseph C. Youngerman

Critic Award

Paine Knickerbocker, San Francisco Chronicle 

Writers Guild of America Awards (Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on March 9, 1964, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Winners listed in bold). 

Best Written Drama

America, America, Elia Kazan

The Balcony, Ben Maddow, based on the play by Jean Genet

Captain Newman, M.D., Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron, based on the novel by Leo Rosten

The Great Escape, James Clavell, W.R. Burnett, based on the novel by Paul Brickhill

Hud, Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch, based on the novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

The Ugly American, Stewart Stern, based on the novel by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick

Best Written Comedy

Charade, Peter Stone, story by Peter Stone and Marc Behm

Irma La Douce, I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder, based on the musical play by Alexandre Breffort

Lilies of the Field, James Poe, based on the novel by William E. Barrett

Love with the Proper Stranger, Arnold Schulman

The Thrill of it All, Carl Reiner, story by Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart

Laurel Award

John Huston

Valentine Davies Award

Morgan Cox

The New York Times Ten Best List (Listed in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Heaven's Above!

The L-Shaped Room

Hud

Cleopatra

8 1/2

Tom Jones

Any Number Can Win

The Sound of Trumpets

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

America, America

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1963 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1962 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1963 are included. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

1) Cleopatra- $15,700,000

2) The Longest Day (1962)- $12,750,000

3) Irma La Douce- $9,250,000

4) Lawrence of Arabia (1962)- $9,000,000

5) How the West was Won- $8,000,000

6) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)- $7,700,000

7) Son of Flubber- $6,900,000

8) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)- $6,700,000

9) Bye, Bye Birdie- $5,600,000

10) Come Blow Your Horn- $5,450,000

11) Gypsy (1962)- $5,400,000

12) The Castaways (1962)- $4,700,000

13) The Birds- $4,600,000

       The Great Escape- $4,600,000

15) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)- $4,500,000

16) Diamond Head (1962)- $4,300,000

17) The Thrill of it All- $4,150,000

18) Spencer's Mountain- $4,000,000

19) 55 Days at Peking- $3,900,000

       Hud- $3,900,000

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1963 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Doris Day
2) John Wayne
3) Rock Hudson
4) Jack Lemmon
5) Cary Grant
6) Elizabeth Taylor
7) Elvis Presley
8) Sandra Dee
9) Paul Newman
10) Jerry Lewis

The Next Fifteen:
11) Gregory Peck
12) Shirley MacLaine
13) Frank Sinatra
14) James Stewart
15) Hayley Mills
16) James Garner
17) Debbie Reynolds
18) Burt Lancaster
19) Glenn Ford
20) Troy Donahue
21) Tony Curtis
22) Kirk Douglas
23) Charlton Heston
24) Henry Fonda
25) Richard Burton

1963's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) George Chakiris
2) Peter Fonda
3) Stella Stevens
4) Diane McBain
5) Pamela Tiffin
6) Pat Wayne
7) Dorothy Provine
8) Barbara Eden
9) Ursula Andress
10) Tony Bill

The Next Fifteen:
11) Robert Walker, Jr.
12) Tippi Hedren
13) Christine Kaufman
14) Jody McCrea
15) Joan Blackman
16) Jim Mitchum
17) James Franciscus
18) Nancy Kovack
19) Joan O'Brien
20) Terence Stamp
21) Doug McClure
22) Mimsy Farmer
23) Susannah York
24) Sue Lyon
25) Cindy Carol

The Golden Laurel Awards of 1964 (1963 films, unless otherwise noted. Results printed in the Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine on September 30, 1964. Source: IMDB)

Top Drama

1) Hud

2) The Great Escape

3) The Cardinal

4) Love With the Proper Stranger

5) Seven Days in May

Top Comedy

1) Tom Jones

2) Irma La Douce

3) Charade

4) Bye, Bye Birdie

5) Move Over, Darling

Top Musical

1) Bye, Bye Birdie

2) Move Over, Darling (not a musical, though)

Top Action Drama

1) McLintock!

2) Dr. No

3) 55 Days at Peking

4) 4 For Texas

5) Captain Sinbad

Top General Entertainment

Lilies of the Field

Sleeper of the Year

Beach Party

Flipper

Top Roadshow

Cleopatra

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Top Male Comedy Performance

1) Jack Lemmon in Irma La Douce

2) Cary Grant in Charade

3) Albert Finney in Tom Jones

4) James Stewart in Take Her, She's Mine

5) Tony Curtis in Captain Newman, M.D.

Top Female Comedy Performance

1) Shirley MacLaine in Irma La Douce

2) Ann-Margret in Bye, Bye Birdie

3) Audrey Hepburn in Charade

4) Sandra Dee in Take Her, She's Mine

5) Lee Remick in The Wheeler Dealers

Top Male Dramatic Performance

1) Paul Newman in Hud

2) Rex Harrison in Cleopatra

3) Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field

4) Burt Lancaster in Seven Days in May

5) Tom Tyron in The Cardinal

Top Female Dramatic Performance

1) Patricia Neal in Hud

2) Natalie Wood in Love with the Proper Stranger

3) Lelsie Caron in The L-Shaped Room

4) Polly Bergen in The Caretakers

5) Joanne Woodward in The Stripper

Top Action Performance

1) John Wayne in McLintock!

2) Steve McQueen in The Great Escape

3) Sean Connery in Dr. No

4) James Garner in The Great Escape

5) Charlton Heston in 55 Days at Peking

Top Female Supporting Performance
1) Margaret Rutherford in The V.I.P.s
2) Lilia Skala in Lilies of the Field
3) Thelma Ritter in A New Kind of Love
4) Diane Cilento in Tom Jones
5) Arlene Francis in The Thrill of it All

Top Male Supporting Performance
1) Melvyn Douglas in Hud
2) John Huston in The Cardinal
3) Lee J. Cobb in Come Blow Your Horn
4) Bobby Darin in Captain Newman, M.D.
5) Hugh Griffith in Tom Jones

Top Director

1) Fred Zinnemann

2) Joseph L. Mankiewicz

3) Tony Richardson

4) George Cukor

5) Blake Edwards

6) Vincente Minnelli

7) Henry Hathaway

8) John Sturges

9) Vittorio De Sica

10) Stanley Kubrick

Top Producer

1) Walt Disney

2) Ross Hunter

3) Hal B. Wallis

4) Sam Spiegel

5) Daryl F. Zanuck

6) Walter Mirisch

7) Carl Foreman

8) Samuel Z. Arkoff

    James H. Nicholson

9) Samuel Bronston

10) Aaron Rosenberg

Top Producer/Director

1) Alfred Hitchcock

2) John Huston

3) John Ford

4) Billy Wilder

5) Stanley Kramer

6) George Stevens

7) Otto Preminger

8) Delmer Daves

9) Mervyn LeRoy

10) William Wyler

Top Song

1) "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Music by Ernest Gold. Lyrics by Mack David

2) "So Little Time" from 55 Days at Peking. Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

3) "Call Me Irresponsible" from Papa's Delicate Condition. Music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

4) "More" from Mondo Cane. Music by Riz Ortolani. Lyrics by Norman Newell

5) "Charade" from Charade. Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

Top Music

1) Elmer Bernstein

2) Dimitri Tiomkin

3) Andre Previn

4) Bronislau Kaper

5) Max Steiner

Top Male Star

1) Cary Grant

2) Rock Hudson

3) Jack Lemmon

4) John Wayne

5) Gregory Peck

6) Steve McQueen

7) Paul Newman

8) Jerry Lewis

9) James Garner

10) Frank Sinatra

11) James Stewart

12) Elvis Presley

13) William Holden

14) Tony Curtis

15) Burt Lancaster

Top Female Star

1) Doris Day

2) Elizabeth Taylor

3) Natalie Wood

4) Debbie Reynolds

5) Shirley MacLaine

6) Ann-Margret

7) Sandra Dee

8) Hayley Mills

9) Carroll Baker

10) Jane Fonda

11) Joanne Woodward

12) Deborah Kerr

13) Sophia Loren

14) Maureen O'Hara

15) Audrey Hepburn

Top Male New Face

1) Sean Connery

2) Don Knotts

3) Peter Fonda

4) Dick Van Dyke

5) Jonathan Winters

6) Tony Bill

7) Robert Walker, Jr.

8) James Franciscus

9) Cliff Richard

10) Luke Halpin

11) Tom Bosley

12) Philippe Forquet

13) Alain Delon

14) Brock Peters

15) Todd Armstrong

Top Female New Face

1) Elke Sommer

2) Dorothy Provine

3) Tippi Herden

4) Elizabeth Montgomery

5) Ursula Andress

6) Carol Burnett

7) Claudia Cardinale

8) Lilia Skala

9) Bethel Leslie

10) Maria Perschy

11) Cindy Carol

12) Diana Hyland

13) Nancy Kovack

14) Joey Heatherton

15) Senta Berger

Special Award

Edith Head ("Who dresses up the movies and generates news in the world of fashion with creations that are seen in each of her films.")

Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

In a preface to the 1963 awards the Lampoon listed the four functions of these awards:

1) To express rage and disappointment over the failure of Hollywood either to entertain or to educate

2) To rectify this failure through criticism

3) To supply a tonic to cure the ballyhoo and inanity of the Academy Awards

4) To infuriate people over trivialities

Ten Worst Movies:

Cleopatra

The V.I.P.s

The Prize

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

How the West was Won

Heaven's Above

55 Days at Peking

Act One

The Birds; Bye, Bye Birdie (tied)

Gidget Goes to Rome; Tammy and the Doctor (tied)

Worst Film of the Century:

For the century 1863-1963 to

Cleopatra

(This award was last presented in 1958 for the century ending in that year)

The Kirk Douglas Award to the Worst Actor:

Burt Lancaster, The Leopard; Seven Days in May

The Worst Actress:

Debbie Reynolds, How the West was Won; Mary, Mary

The Worst Supporting Actor:

Roy Cohn, Point of Order

The Worst Supporting Actress:

Carol Burnett, Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed

The Timothy Cratchit Memorial Crutch:

(to that Hollywood personality who offers the lamest justification for unsavory behavior)

Elizabeth Taylor for divorcing Eddie Fisher on the grounds of abandonment

The Tin Pan:

(to the most obnoxious movie song)

"Love With the Proper Stranger"

The Great Ceremonial Hot Dog

(for the worst scenes of the cinema season)

The five ax murders in Strait-Jacket

The four murders in Charade

The delivery of a baby in the back seat of a Rolls Royce (with Doris Day as midwife)

in The Thrill of it All

Cliff Richard twisting his way across Europe in an open-mesh T-shirt in Summer Holiday

The Wilde Oscar:

(to that performer who has been willing to flout convention and risk worldly reputation to pursue artistic fulfillment)

To the producers of Becket and Night of the Iguana for casting Richard Burton in clerical roles

The Ok-Doc-Break-the-Arm-Again Award:

(for the most flagrant example of miscasting)

To the producers of Take Her, She's Mine for placing Sandra Dee in the role of a Wellesley College student

The Drums-Along-the-Mohawk Grant:

(for the most drummed-up publicity campaign)

Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Jr., and the three kidnappers of the latter

The Bratwurst Award:

(to the most obnoxious child star of the year)

The entire cast of The Lord of the Flies

Worst Performance by a Cast in Toto:

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Hon. Wrong-Way Corrigan Memorial Palm:

(for the worse direction of a film)

Stanley Kramer, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The Uncrossed Heart:

(for the least promising young performer)

Annette Funicello, Beach Party; The Misadventures of Merlin Jones

Thank You Again:

Victor Mature for not making a film this year

The Please-Don't-Put-Us-Through-DeMille-Again Award:

(for that film which best embodies pretentious extravagance and blundering ineffectiveness of the traditional Screen Spectacular)

Cleopatra

The Arrested-Development Oblation:

(to that adult actor who has displayed the lowest level of maturity)

Always given to Jerry Lewis

The Aerosol Bomb:

The Lord of the Flies

The Gilded Cage:

The Birds and A Gathering of Eagles with mention to The Cardinal

The Merino Award:

In 1960 to Maureen O'Hara; in 1961 to Rita Moreno; in 1962 to Maureen O'Sullivan; this year to the Marine standing sentry duty outside the American Embassy in Paris in Charade

Best Argument for Stricter Immigration Laws:

America, America

The Gold Star-on-the-Wayne Laurel:

To Donovan's Reef and McClintock

The That-Was-the-Week-that-Was Trophy:

Seven Days in May

We-Heard-You-the-First-Time Award:

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; America, America and Twice Told Tales

Best Argument for Vivisection:

Miracle of the White Stallions

The Marquis De Sade Memorial Whip:

A New Kind of Love

The Cellophane Figleaf:

(for false modesty)

Ann-Margret for insisting she is not oversexed

The Vanity Fair Citation: 

To Rex Harrison for carrying to court his fight to be portrayed on the Cleopatra poster

The Ayn Rand Award:

(to that writer whose bad books made worse movies)

Irving Wallace, author of The Chapman Report and The Prize

The Roscoe Award:

Doris Day, who has gotten way with it once too often